
#142 Cirrhosis TIPS for Acute Complications
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Cirrhosis: A Case Study
The patient is admitted with abdominal pain and encephalopathy. His blood pressure is low, but stable, his heart rates in the 90s. About 10 to 25% of serotics will end up with a portal vein thrombosis. So should I prophylax them for DVTs? My answer to that is probably yes. Anoxaparen may be even beneficial in some ways if they have cirrhosis.
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